Johnny Cash Would Have Been 88 Today – Photos
Johnny Cash would have celebrated his 88th birthday today (2/26). Cash died in 2003 at the age of 71 not long after his beloved wife June Carter Cash passed away….
Headshot of American country singer Johnny Cash (1932 – 2003) singing on stage in a still from the film, ‘Johnny Cash – The Man, His World, His Music,’ directed by Robert Elfstrom, 1969.
Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesJohnny Cash would have celebrated his 88th birthday today (2/26). Cash died in 2003 at the age of 71 not long after his beloved wife June Carter Cash passed away.
Barbara Mandrell toured with Cash as a teenager. Below, the now-retired and reclusive country star, talks about what it was like getting to know "The Man In Black."
We take a look at the amazing Country Music icon in pictures of his landmark career that brought so many to the genre of country music.
Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s.
Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.
